Sentence examples for anachronistic notion from inspiring English sources

One can be more confident in denying the thoroughly anachronistic notion that the Lelantine War shows the existence of "trade leagues" at this early date.

Baseball still observes the touchingly anachronistic notion that one should see a game in person while enjoying a hot dog and belting out "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch.

While many people in Atlantic City deride the anachronistic notion of a beauty pageant in the 21st century, they do not want to see it ride out of town on the old Reading Railroad -- or any other conveyance on the Monopoly board.

"Often companies take four floors in bigger buildings; we believe they should encourage staff to walk between them, to the gym, the canteen," says Nuki, who thinks that lifts are a 20th-century idea, defined by the anachronistic notion that true luxury is being inactive.

If his subscribers wanted to travel outside of those cities' limits they would have to pay roaming fees, an anachronistic notion in an industry in which the big guys prided themselves on having a national footprint free of such charges.

In the corporate world, learning ethics has become an anachronistic notion.

He retained an anachronistic feeling for "Greater Britain".

(Dargis) 'MRS. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT' (No rating, 108 minutes) This weepie about the tender friendship between a 70-something British widow (Joan Plowright) and a struggling young writer (Rupert Friend) is as anachronistic as the notion of a Terence Rattigan play set in the present.

The world itself is Jim's parent -- a cozy notion -- and Earley's anachronistic fondness for personification underscores this.

Obama had won his first campaign by using old-fashioned Chicago machine tactics at a time when the notion of machine politics was increasingly anachronistic.

That line may be the second-most anachronistic-sounding thing in the movie (after the notion that, for a single, working mother and her child living in a two-bedroom apartment on Central Park West, real-estate salvation comes in the form of a small Cape Cod house on Long Island).